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Nuclear Energy Strategy announced at CNA2026
At the Canadian Nuclear Association Conference (CNA2026) in Ottawa, Ontario, on April 29, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson announced that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is developing a new Nuclear Energy Strategy for the country. The strategy, which is slated to be released by the end of this year, will be based on four objectives: 1) enabling new nuclear builds across Canada, 2) being a global supplier and exporter of nuclear technology and services, 3) expanding uranium production and nuclear fuel opportunities, and 4) developing new Canadian nuclear innovations, including in both fission and fusion technologies.
C. O. Muehlhause
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 4 | April 1959 | Pages 225-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25588
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Values for the number of neutrons produced per thermal neutron absorbed, ηth, in the three fissile materials U233, U235, and Pu239 are reported. The measurement of these quantities was performed between the years 1951 and 1953 at the Argonne National Laboratory using the original enriched heavy water reactor, CP3', and the technique of pile oscillation. A slight revision of the data has been made on the basis of new total cross sections and f-values. The eta values at thermal energy (0.0253 ev) were found to be η23 = 2.25 ± 0.03, η25 = 2.05 ± 0.03, and η49 = 2.04 ± 0.04.